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I am one that likes to get my moneys worth out of a couch but sometimes I am just ready for a change. What do you think is a reasonable run for a sofa or love seat? How long have you had yours and what is the longest you have ever owned and used a sofa? Thanks. |
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Hi! We just replaced our sofa, loveseat and recliner last year. Our previous set we have had for 13 years. The old furntiture is in good shape, but it is "out of style". We have moved it down to our basement and will use it in our tv room. |
My mom changes hers every 2 - 3 years. My current one is a brown leather sofa from craigslist. I've had it for 4 years, and it's likely over 10 years old altogether. I think it depends on the practicalness of it and how well it holds up to every day wear and tear. Mine suits me just fine for now because it's comfortable and I have small children who climb all over it. Plus the leather is nice with their spills and messes. Once the kids have grown a little, I'm sure I'll want to update. |
Ours is 3 months old. Replaced after 4 years. |
- Posted by gsciencechick (My Page) on Tue, Feb 15, 11 at 7:56
Oh gosh, I still have my first "real" sofa that I bought out of graduate school in 1997. It's got a SureFit slipcover on it now. I would like for it to go by the end of the year. I never planned to keep it this long. OTOH, for the $450 I paid for it at a clearance sale, I have long gotten my money's worth on it. The cushions are in surprisingly good condition still. DH's apartment was so small, he only had a loveseat. |
- Posted by lukkiirish (My Page) on Tue, Feb 15, 11 at 8:52
We are waiting for delivery of a new sectional we bought last month, the sofa/sectional we passed on to a friends daughter was about 8 years old. I like change too much to spend a fortune on upholstered furniture so we always buy mid range knowing/expecting it will last around 8-10 years. |
- Posted by sistersunnie (My Page) on Tue, Feb 15, 11 at 9:01
Our last sofa was 25 years old, well loved, slipcovered several times and still in great shape when we passed it onto a college kid for their first apartment. Recently replaced it with a newly upholstered 1950's loveseat. So that one's even older I just havent had it that long. |
Our sofa is 11 years old, great shape and was really abused by the kids. It's in the sitting room. We just bought a new sofa and expect it to last 15+ years for the TV room. |
I have four sofas, all bought within a few years of each other, about 15 years ago. Only one looks like it needs to be replaced. I think when you buy good quality you can expect 10 to 15 years. But, if it looks shabby before then, then that should be your guide. |
- Posted by decordummy (My Page) on Tue, Feb 15, 11 at 9:29
Sofa #1 bought new in 1973 (my apartment) moved to the basement when DH & I bought #2 new in 1988 (our home). About two years ago #2 was moved to the basement when we bought #3 (#3 is a sofa & chair set we bought second-hand). #2 is still in amazing shape (looks like new) & so comfortable (sklar peppler). Our cat is not declawed and has damaged #3 but not the sklar peppler one (#2) which seems to be some sort of really tough chenille. Other family members seem to average about 4 sofas in the time we have one. I guess we just had other priorities. |
- Posted by tryingtodecorate (My Page) on Tue, Feb 15, 11 at 9:41
We have a formal loveseat that is 17 years old and still in good shape, the bottom cushions are squished in the middle and could be replaced, but I wish it had more neutral fabric. We have a leather sofa that is probably 6-7 years old and our family room sofa is from CL. |
The sofa in my living room was bought in 1978...it's Hickory Chair a $2000 sofa at that time. I'm currently worrying over new fabric again. The leather sofa and love seat in the family room is 12 years old and just fine...I loved it when I bought it and love it now. The sofa in the solarium is an 1840 model, due once again for new upholstery. When I buy something, I don't buy "trendy" but for only very temporary stuff like cushions or throws or a cheap knick knack. Classic never goes out of style....just wears out and needs recovering. Linda C |
Our sofa and loveseat are 15 yrs old and in their 3rd house. I don't like them here in our new house, so they'll soon be replaced, but we're likely to move them down into the basement--if it's finished by then. We still have our first purchased sofa--it's about 20 yrs old. Still looks practically new (better than the above set), but hasn't fit our decor in a long time. We did update it with new (colors of) pillows and such for the last house's basement theater room, and it's in the new house's bonus room. It's a sleeper sofa, and we'll keep it too. |
I bought my first sofa in 1988. I had it until about 1996 when I bought my first house. Then it gets confusing, because we always had two living areas after that. So a new sofa may have come along, but the old one stayed also, and just got shifted to the other space. I also had a 1920s sofa of my grandmother's that I used on and off if I had the space. My/our main "bought new" sofas lasted: 8 years (and it was trash at that point) 5 years (nice leather sofa with nailheads, etc. It was still in great shape, but didn't go with the modern house. Sold it on CL) 3.5 years and counting. But I can tell this one isn't going to make it for the long-haul as the fabric is already showing wear. I'll probably go back to leather after this one. |
We've had our current one for about 12yrs. Struggling w/ the idea of replacing it but feel that I have to for the kids head safety. The padding on the arms has finally shifted to the side leaving the hard wooden frame can be felt when one of the kids whacks their head on the arm. After hashing it out in my head and on line here at GW I feel that it's time to let it go (I'd keep it and slip cover it if I wouldn't have to worry about little heads). DH is on board w/ the idea too. Just down the line though! |
- Posted by boopadaboo (My Page) on Tue, Feb 15, 11 at 10:26
I am curious to know the brands for everyone too. Some have listed it. Very helpful. I went shopping a bit this weekend. Sat in a Natuzzi and a Bernhardt. Are they considered low end? If so they must be high low end based on price. I am so torn, I don't know what to do. DH is in love with the Natuzzi. It looks like a hideous beast to me. |
Our sofa is between five and six years old and is as good as new. Our loveseat, in a different room, is showing its age, not too surprising since it's mid-19th century and was last recovered in the 1940s. The fabric is ripping in parts and you can see the original red damask fabric through the rips. It sure doesn't look perfect, but I have no plans to replace the piece. |
Our last leather sofa was by Scandanavian Design. The color came off after 18 years. Our Lane is a matched leather sofa, 1 year old. Natuzzi and a Bernhardt......a Nat used to be the cheapest leather one could buy, but I think Ashley took it's place...? Bernhardt isn't know for it's leather.....but I would consider it an 8 on a scale of 10 for wood furniture. Here's a chart of leather furniture ratings... |
Here is a link that might be useful: Leather furniture ratings....
- Posted by boopadaboo (My Page) on Tue, Feb 15, 11 at 10:51
Nicole I could kiss you! So helpful. I really don't understand the pricing I was given now. I have no idea what is reasonable. Seems like I have to do some more shopping. DH will be thrilled. |
- Posted by totallyconfused (My Page) on Tue, Feb 15, 11 at 11:03
At this point I would love to have a sofa long enough to grow tired of it. The last few we've had have needed to be replaced after about 6 years. As long as it takes me to accessorize a room, I'm just finishing up about the time I need to start over. Totally Confused |
- Posted by dilettante (My Page) on Tue, Feb 15, 11 at 11:11
My sofa is about 80 years old and is being reupholstered as we speak. I bought it with the intention of having it reupholstered and have never actually used it in my home. For the amount of money I've invested in it (sofa + fabric & supplies + upholsterer), it had darn well better last another 80 years! (The frame, not the fabric, of course.) I'll post photos when it's done. My previous sofa was even older - at least 160 years (no springs). I loved it, but the frame was in bad shape and couldn't be repaired. In the meantime, while my "new" sofa is being reupholstered, I'm using a vintage sofa (from the '40's, I think) that I got on CL for $50. This one wouldn't be worth the expense to recover, so I'll Freecycle it when my "good" sofa is ready. |
Let's see--there's the repro Duncan Phyfe I bought in 1987 (it's from the 20s), there's the one we bought in 1986 that I've had recovered once and slipcovered twice (it was a custom sofa that was refused and the decorator sold it to me) and all the cheap ones that have come and gone. I couldn't afford to replace that one for an equivalent one today. |
- Posted by palimpsest (My Page) on Tue, Feb 15, 11 at 11:23
My current sofa is 40 and I have had it for 6-7 since I reupholstered it and it is still fine. My parents have a 42 year old sofa with 42 year old upholstery and the cushions are a little squashed but it got heavy use. Its well worth recovering although if the cushions could be redone without reupholstering it that would work too. Their LR sofas are 42 in 25ish year old fabric, still fine and the basement sofas which got heavy use are 36 still great and minimal problems with upholstery. (although they are kelly green). All of these sofas though, are very heavy framed and were investments at the time. The LR sofa was $1100 on sale in 1969 and my mom's car at the time wasn't much more. My sofa was commercial and made for heavy use as well. I am a big believer in buying the best sofa you can afford in a pretty basic style that can be recovered when necessary. I bought mine on eBay and it had poor upholstery, but it was a much better sofa than I could afford new. |
boopadoo......your welcome! I like looking at AFW's website....it gives me an idea of what "junk" should cost. If you want quality....well...they don't sell Bradington Young...:0) |
Here is a link that might be useful: American Furniture Warehouse....sofas....
- Posted by palimpsest (My Page) on Tue, Feb 15, 11 at 11:47
I think if you are a person who likes to change, and maybe dramatically, on a regular basis, there is nothing wrong with buying a cheaper piece of furniture with the expectation that it won't last as long or may be more "trend driven" in design. I would at least try to buy something that could have some value or utility to someone else so it didnt end up in a landfill |
- Posted by grandmaof3 (My Page) on Tue, Feb 15, 11 at 14:37
We have a Natuzzi loveseat. It is leather, but the cushions are sagging in the center...I keep wanting to be able to reach in and fluff them up...lol. Our recliners are Lane and are holding up so much better. |
I purcahsed my LR sofa (made by Henredon with down cushions) in 1973. It's been reupholsered 3 times in the past 38 years because it's always been in the LR, so doesn't get as much wear. Every time I reupholster, I change its appearance -- skirts, no skirts, etc. I purchased the 2 LR occasional chairs in 1973 as well -- also high end furniture -- and they've been reupholstered each time the sofa was. Their appearance is totally different from the way they looked in 1973. My FR sofa and chair (Thomasville) were purchased in 1991 and have been reupholstered twice in the last 20 years, because they get more use. Again, I've changed they way they look with skirts, the pillows, etc. These pieces of furniture were so incredibly constructed, they will outlast me, and they'll still look beautiful. I just can't consume and discard....it's such a strong principle for me. |
- Posted by tuesday_2008 (My Page) on Tue, Feb 15, 11 at 14:49
Current set is 2 years old. Previous set was 24 years old - reupholstered once. Both were Smith Brothers. |
Ours is close to 9 years old, PB Charleston. I would certainly not buy another one there. The seat cushions started to flatten out right away. The frame's alright, but it should be, it's just me, hubby and two tiny dogs, and we almost never sit on it. My next purchase is going to be a leather sofa in a classic style, and I want it to last the rest of my life. As mentioned, we're extremely easy on furniture, so this shouldn't be a tall order. |
Five year old standard looking sectional that has been used quite a bit. It's comfy and has good light. This couch encourages sloth. I will be tearing it apart, tightening the springs, adding better webbing and re-stuffing the cushions within the next month. Once the fabric starts to age I'll try to reupholster it. If it turns out to be too big of a job I'll have it done professionally. I'd really rather have a nice sofa/love seat combo, but we are all really tall and like to sprawl. |
- Posted by porkandham (My Page) on Tue, Feb 15, 11 at 15:33
My LR sofa is an antique. It was in the LR of the house I grew up in. My mother reupholstered it at least once, and I had it reupholstered when it came to live at my house. My mother had her FR/den furniture for at least 30 years and reupholstered it three times that I can remember. She gave it away when she downsized. I still have the first sofa I ever bought in the early 1990's. It's now slip covered and in my boys' playroom. Our FR furniture is relatively new. I bought it about four years ago at Calico Corners for around $2000. It seems well made, the style is pretty timeless, and I expect to have it a long time. |
our current leather sectional is hancock moore...have had for 9 years of heavy use in family room and it is wearing extremely well---seat cushions/back cushions have no indentations, sagging etc...very pleased with our purchase. the sofa it replaced was ethan allen(currently in our basement) and definitely is not nearly of the same quality---the frame is holding up great (it's 12 years old)but the cushions definitely have not held up like the hm sectional!! |
LOL My sofa...I think most are over 80 years old, one is about 130 or so and has always been in the parlor (I'm not quite that old). I'm still using a 90 year old sofa that I've had for...gad 25 years???? I had it recovered in that time span, but still it's going strong. Our townhouse has newer sofas...one is about 8 years old..actually now that I think about it the main ones (three of them) are all about that old. I have no intentions of changing them any time soon. I also have a sofa there that's 60 or 70 years old and I may recover it in the next year or so but it will still remain. I'm into classic quality pieces that will last me more than a few years. I may recover once or twice, but I still keep a quality piece and would over anything you can buy in most stores now a days. There's just no comparison. |
The sofa we have now is not quite 2 years old. The previous sofa was about 15 years old. While it was still comfortable, the material was starting to pill pretty bad, and it was also a sleeper sofa and I just wanted to get rid of it because it was so darn heavy! It sure would be nice if I could buy a new sofa every other year though. lol |
- Posted by regina_phalange (My Page) on Tue, Feb 15, 11 at 19:58
Our current sofas are 2 years old. They are from Crate and Barrel. I'd love to replace them because we just moved and we have room for something different in our new place but I can't justify replacing them this soon. |
My living room couch is 9.5 years old. It was a mid-priced set. I have no idea who the maker is, I bought it from Sears and it just says Sears home on the labels. The fabric is some sort of chenille and it indestructible. Even the cat clawing at it does not show at all. There is only one cushion that is a little squished because it's in the one spot that someone is always sitting in. The couch in the basement is a 20 year old sectional. The fabric is very, very worn, with stuffing showing through the arms. But the cushions are all in great shape, still really firm and retaining their shape. It was not an expensive couch either. |
- Posted by dancingqueen (My Page) on Tue, Feb 15, 11 at 22:02
Our "favorite" is 23 years old. It''s a taupe colored leather in pretty good shape except for at the base where one of our prior cats scratched it. It was very expensive when we bought it but it sure has worked for us. It's a queen sleeper so heavy as can be. We bought a fancy Swaim down filled sofa to replace it and HATE it. It's hard and uncomfortable. We put the Swaim in the formal living room where we only go on holidays. |
- Posted by sombreuil_mongrel (My Page) on Tue, Feb 15, 11 at 22:07
I still enjoy my parent's ca. 1952 sofa they bought as newlyweds. It's been reupholstered three times that I can remember. It's Ethan Allen. My other sofa is also a hand-me-down from about 1973, with down innerspring cushions; I had it reupholstered 15 years ago. It's three cushion with a low back, incurved ends. IIRC it's Flexsteel, but the label disappeared with the recovering, so we'll never know. Casey |
- Posted by jenny_from_the_block (My Page) on Tue, Feb 15, 11 at 22:51
Our one and only full-sized sofa purchase is from Ethan Allen, the Kenwood style in 'family friendly' leather bought approx. 7 years ago. I believe for around $2K. It has been the main sofa for two adults, two rambunctious children, and one 75 lb dog for most of the past 7 years. It is a tight back style and ohas held up extremely well so far, seems to be the type of sofa we will be able to use at least until the next decade or more until I get tired of its appearance and send it to the family room or basement! Because of its tight English-style design, I would try slipcovering it for a new look before sending it the rec room basement. |
Mine is about 7 yrs old. Bought a new one when the lady down the street wanted to buy mine. I worked p/t at an interiors store then so got a great bargain on furniture. Had all the name brands.......Bonnie |
I have a leather couch in the main living area and I'm not sure how old it is, I am guessing about 10 years. It's still in very good shape. In the den the sofa is from 1990, I know because I found the sales reciept for it recently. It's still okay but is starting to show it's age a little. It's fabric. |
- Posted by jerseygirl_1 (My Page) on Wed, Feb 16, 11 at 6:12
My LR sofa which was bought at Calico Corners 9 yrs old. I am in the process of having is reuphholstered. I could not bare to give it away since it is so well made. My FR sofa is 3 yrs old and cost too much money for me to get tired of it. The fabric is very neutral and should last for years. |
- Posted by cliff_and_joann (My Page) on Wed, Feb 16, 11 at 7:42
Living Room sofa is about 25-30 years old. Reupholstered three times. Second time we raised up the skirt to under the cushions for a more modern look. I probably will keep it forever, as it has no back cushions a nice style, it's a good backdrop for my compulsive throw pillow fettish. :) The den sofa is leather--about 4 years old. |
We tend to buy quality sofas and keep for a while. We have a small leather sofa in our office, about 3 years old I think but I cannot remember the brand! The sofa in the great room is going on 13 years old. It is in great shape but I am getting tired of the fabric. I have thought about reupholstering, but it is pretty costly and I would still have a 13 year old sofa. On the other hand, it is it a good quality sofa. Haven't decided for sure as I have not bitten the bullet and actually looked at sofas. One thing is I have never bought a sofa off the floor, have always done the custom fabric - other than the leather sofa. tina |
Our sofa is 13 years old, it's leather and by Vanguard. I just had the cushions restuffed last summer to restore firmness. Unfortunately the leather has a grease spot from where DH sits every day (right where his head is!), and the leather is too delicate for the leather cleaners that I've tried. So if I can't find a leather cleaner who can fix and seal the leather, we may have to replace it or have it reupholstered. Otherwise I think it would last another 15 years or more. |
- Posted by newdawn1895 (My Page) on Wed, Feb 16, 11 at 19:51
My bedroom sofa is a hundred years old and I have had it for twenty years. Eight years ago I had it upholstered in cream chenille, think bathrobe. It weights a ton and I wouldn't take anything for it. |
Our library sofa is 42 :) My mother bought it in 1969 and it sported a hideous rust, brown and gold "olefin" woven fabric . . . it was in their library. She reupholstered it twice, then gave it to my brother, who reupholstered it and when he got married his wife didn't like it (the nerve!) so he shipped it to me. I had a slipcover made and then covered it in the green velvet it wears now about 9 years ago. Each time it's been re-covered we've kept a snip of the fabric and I keep them in a ziploc bag under the cushions . . . when anyone remarks how comfy it is I pull out the bag and show them its many incarnations, sort of "sofas through the decades." It is 8 feet long and is a Baker sofa that still has the foam rubber cushions! One of our LR sofas is from 1991, it was slipcovered in ticking for the longest time and reupholstered five years ago. It was from Ikea and cost about $500, NOT on sale! We've had the cushions remade, but it is holding up really well. My bedroom sofa was purchased in 1982, also a Baker and it also wore a ticking slipcover and was recovered five years ago. And our other LR sofa is a light green cut velvet from Chelsea House that we bought in 2003. It is the only one still wearing its original fabric. I expect to have these sofas forever. |
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good night, Troops. I'll see ya tomorrow.
good night, Troops. I'll see ya tomorrow.
I just realized the images I in my last three posts didn't come through. Here they are:
Timmy: http://www.activeduty.com/tour/conte...umbs/29378.jpg
And Wes:http://www.activeduty.com/tour/conte...umbs/28778.jpg
Be sure not to miss our latest hardcore update with Evan, Diego and Boyd:
And Kieran in the War Chest:
The new guy Tucker is incredible. Don't care much for the tattoos, but his solo was great. Real dirty boy, great looking with a nice body, cock and ass and a filthy mouth. Hope he is in some action scenes SOON. Loved him humping the bed
Qurstion ..... IS this the same Tucker who appeared here once before? Looks similar ....
and ...... has delicious BOYD been scared off????
It seems that former AD youngster Blake works now for the Helix studio - und the alias
...... Blake Stevenson:
Blake Stevenson - Helix Studios
Boys and Their Toys - Helix Studios
Normally, it's the other way: Helix features fresh twinks and newcomers. If they get older, they hand them over to other companies.
Of course, the punishment for such escapades is harsh in the army - Blake's name has been banned unceremoniously from the model list:
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Happens all the time. I've seen several of the models on Active Duty show up on other sites.
I've seen several of the models on Active Duty show up on other sites.
I've never doubted this.
But the Blake case is different: First, because he was one of only a very few slim twinks in the AD stable (and the main reason I still have 'Double Time 6' in my collection).
Second, because it's the very first time that a former AD actor works now for the Helix studio.
Traditionally, Helix prefers to wangle off models from other companies like for example from High Drive
(Chad Fitch, Dakota....).
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Just watched the Kaden/Boyd episode ..... and I'm sorry - but I was extremely DISAPPOINTED the whole concept and anticipation of Boyd losing hi cherry was great - but the reality of this Video was extremely POOR and keft so much toi be desired. Dink has certainly certainly lost his touch completely. There was absolutely NO sensuousness, NO Chemistry shown between Kaden and Boyd - the sex was there, yes, but just the simple act - NOTHING else. Dink needs to go and watch some of the Sean Cody or Corbin Fisher episodes of HOT MEN having a sexual encounter! We need to see the sweat of the moment, the wetness and the heat of the exchange - hot lips locking in the smell of sex, the glistening of juicy cocks entering mouths and asses, the panting of men in love. There was NONE of this here at all - very dry, mechanical and bland. Dink needs to go back to school to learn how to produce a Hot, Steamy, Sexual encounter - like some of the ones he produced in his early years (with Shane, etc) - otherwise get out of the business! Boyd is extremely hot - and he was cheated out of a great moment by Dink!
In general, I would say AD scenes are far more mechanical versus SC/CF. I suspect this is largely due to the nature of the guys being recruited. My belief is that AD has far more straight guys who are purely gay for pay. SC/CF has a much higher percentage of gay/bi guys who enjoy gay sex.
All that said, Kaden is still so hot. He is transitioning nicely from fresh faced young man to a real man.
ChaseO310 is completely right. This was a total snooze. It seems that Active Duty is throwing together scenes to just to get them out there. (Hopefully they will stop recycling content.) I know that Active Duty is completely committed to Kaden but I can't recall ever watching a Kaden scene that I wanted to watch again. In fact, I can't recall watching any scene from last several months more than once. Yes, Kaden is handsome. Yes, Kaden has a good body, big dick, etc., but watching him have sex is really boring. There are certain AD guys that could really make a scene happen. Shane (I agree), Thomas, Chaz, Jack, David, DJ, Spencer and so many more.
Unfortunately, Dink Flkamingo has lost his touch. He is also out of touch with the leaders in the industry and he's out of touch with what his consumers want. Something tells me that Flamingo did not nurture his key performers and fan favorites and now those guys have moved on. Yes, he brought back winners Chaz and Thomas, but where are they?
That Axl controversy did not help either. All of that time wasted on what turns out to be a mediocre performer was not worth the hit Flamingo took to his credibility. For me, AD has always been about peaks and valleys...never consistent. This is a pretty deep valley for AD and I don't know if they can rebound.
IMO,AD,like many of the other sites,lost its way a long time ago. The Axl diaster simply sped up my resolve not to view their videos anymore. He is still free to use him though,we are simply free not to spend $$$ on it.
And even back in the day when they were using gay-4-pay guys,they looked and acted like they enjoyed it. Those days are gone. And that might not be a bad thing.
I don't know if I'm the minority. But I enjoyed the Kaden/Boyd scene a lot. My highlight was when Boyd mumbles something like "fuck me deeper" or something else. And I feel Boyd really enjoyed the fucking in the end, especially when he was about to cum.
Nice job, Dink. mmmmhmmm, I need to rewatch the scene again. Can't wait for the Tanner duo this weekend.
I've not watched much of the recent AD stuff, so I can't judge about the releases in 2011/12.
But following rather regularly the heavy output of other companies like Helix, Belami, Falcon & Falcon Int., Jet Set... I often find a loss of quality & atmosphere there - the action, camera work, editing, sound... is meanwhile frequently weak & disappointing.
One main reason for this decline: the use of new & rather ungifted disciples. For example Helix boss Keith Miller, who did the directing & editing before 2009 often personally, let nowaday guys like the former models Casey Roberts, Shawn Fox , and others do the job.
And in the case of Belami: well, I haven't seen so far one scene directed by Lukas Ridgeston - who is, among other projects, responsible for the Taboo & Skin on Skin bareback titles - which is all around felicitous, wherein everything: acting, camera work, editing, and sound are very well done. The same goes for former actor Dominik Trojan, now director at Vimpex/Hammer.
Maybe at Active Duty there are similar reasons. And Mr. Flamingo, officially still the producer, is not so much involved anymore in the daily work on the set...
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ONe also to take into account sites like Xtube. Sometimes seeing the real thing turns people on more than on the set fake moaning does.
Most sites try to one-up each other with better HD quality, hotter models and the newest acrobatic positions, they actually forgot what it means to make a porn. It's not about the technical stuff, it's about the guys and the sex they have. Chemistry is key but that seems to be on the bottom of the list these days.
Chemistry is the key but that seems to be on the bottom of the list these days.
One unholy example - typical for many, many other studios & directors in Europe, America & elsewhere:
Vlado Iresch in Czechia with his Staxus/Bare/Raw line.
In the last years he "specialised" more and more in double penetrations, group scenes, and piss & abuse titles.
But since Mr. Iresch has sometimes already little success in presenting the bodies, faces & feelings of two actors in one scene properly, and since he loses frequently the perspective & track in his three- & four-ways, he is surely not among the most qualified men in the business when it comes to the filming & production of gangbangs & bigger group scenes. (The same goes for Alex Clark from Dolphin, Nir Rosenbaum from SEVP, Lukas Ridgeston from Belami, Chris Steele from Jet Set, Mike Donner from Dirty Bird, plus most of the directors from the Miami Studios).
Nonetheless, and following some statements of the Staxus studio promoters in the past months: is Mr. Iresch especially proud of his gangbang movies - and of his "well captured" cumshots (in general totally stereotypical & insensitive - and nearly never in combination with the face and the emotions of the climaxing model).
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<< I don't know if I'm the minority. But I enjoyed the Kaden/Boyd scene a lot. My highlight was when Boyd mumbles something like "fuck me deeper" or something else. And I feel Boyd really enjoyed the fucking in the end ... >>
I don't know if you are in the minority or not ... I liked the concept of the video - in fact have been waiting for Voyd to give it up - but the concept and the reality are 2 different things ..... Kaden is gorgeous & and Boyd is BF material - but there was NO chemistry, no romance, no HOTNESS to this vid .... I have been sppoiled by SC, I guess - where I see hot mouth-mouth action, hot rimming, hot sensuality, etc etc - NONE of this was in the Kaden/Boyd venture - it was all mechanical, all scripted --- gone are the days of wet, steamy sex .... Dink had better ramp up his program, get rid of the amateurs who know NOTHING about hot mansex, and get back to whatg used to be a hallmark of AD sex!
Guess everyone has his own taste/fetish. I don't like recent sean cody videos at all (I do like their older videos). I like these amateur videos just because they are amateur. If I want to watch fake moaning and faked passion stuff (no offense to sean cody and corbin fisher), I would go for bigger production companies. Also the key for me is that a gay-for-pay model is getting deflowered. Most likely they wouldn't enjoy it (well they may still enjoy it when the dick hits the prostate, ). But that's exactly the attracting point, well at least for me. But to each his own.
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Another boring update this evening from Active Duty. Finally canceled my subscription.
I don't subscribe to the Active Duty site but I've seen some of their vids via the 'aebn theatre' pay-per-minute sites ... I fear I'm probably in a minority because for the most part I can't really stand a lot of chit-chat from behind the camera, either before or during their scenes, as it's too often intrusive, embarrassing or just plain boring ... Having said that, and giving credit where it's due, there's one hot AD scene with Kaden which is right up my street (from An American Sailor) ... It's a dimly lit solo in which there's no chit-chat and everything's taken nice and slow, with no rush, and with the camera lingering on Kaden very nicely throughout ... So can anyone tell me if there are any more Active Duty solos like this one, with the guy in a dimly-lit room under one key-light, taking his time over a wank and showing his ass to the camera just like Kaden does ... If so, please let me know and I'll go look for it straight away ...
Nick Tower is the best thing to hit ActiveDuty in a long time - he has a sort of Chris Meloni look, and a fat cock that looks good in Kaden's mouth.
Tanner's cherry got popped! Yummy.
Nick Tower has a fat cock that looks good in Kaden's mouth.
A fat cock ? . . A real thick one ?
Well, ask Al Parker and Cory Monroe about girth... and take a look at Axel Johnson.... ..
What happened to the live shows?
anyone? what happened to the live shows? are they ever coming back?
While I cancelled my membership a couple of months ago, I still read the updates hoping that something might entice me to rejoin. There is no mention of the Live content on the updates and the Live schedule shows that this weeks shows have been cancelled. I guess this has happened for the past few weeks?
This is not the first time that Active Duty has had trouble with the Live content. A couple of years ago, a bunch of Live episodes from the Archieves disappeared. At the time, Dink Flamingo made promises that the content would reappear, but after a while, I gave up looking for them.
You might try emailing Dink Flamingo. His email is in the Help Section. This is another indication that things are not going well at AD.
Thanks for the reply, stillwaterz
AD used to be my favorite producer of all time. It was loaded with real authentic military men. Now it appears as though they find guys who want to appear in porn, throw a set of dog tags on them and say they're military. Some (not all) of these pretty boys were no way now how in the military. Even his newest DVD releases really stink. I wish things were the way they were in the beginning.
Yup agree that the guys aren't that good like they were before.
The last guy I was really excited about was Brian (Aka Brian Austin), who I knew was on that MTV show Next and then on Military Classified and then some movies. He seemed like the last legit military guy on there to me. Even though in his very first video on AD he sucked and got fucked, I believed that he was mostly straight/bisexual due to his Military Classified appearances.
But now that he's left I really lost interest in AD. For some reason I just don't buy that these guys were in the military. Like some have said it just looks like whatever guys they can pick up and then throw some dog tags on them or even put them in a uniform and proclaim that they are actual military men.
The main reason I want to watch AD videos is because they say that they are real military men, but when I start to doubt that the believability goes out the window as does my interest in their videos.
I am starting to think that AD's days maybe numbered if they don't get back to their core ideal and not what they have sadly become.
One also has to keep in mind that some of the real military men he did use ended up getting caught. Things slowly started to go downhill after that but the last couple of years is when it's really shown.
Still kept it going but after the Axel mess,my choice about whether to resubscribe was made for me. I try to always give people the benefit of a doubt..but there wasn't really any to be made.
Do people still use this?
I wanna know if I could get some help. I love Kaden and the gangbang scene he did with Mason in the movie Drafted. It turned me on to see him pound a guy like that. But when looking at other vids, he doesnt seem to do that. Are there other vids where he is straight pounding like he did to mason?
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What happened to Tucker ? All his videos even the one with Axl has been deleted... Too bad cause I was really hoping for a comeback but now I forget that
Me thinks Tucker got in trouble but who knows?
Brian retired per se. He's mostly straight, but I am pretty sure Major Hardon blew him a few times before he got into porn. He also got in trouble in the military from a CD who blew his cover. He was part of a group of marines that I sometimes got to play with that did MC and Dirk Yates. I'm sure Brian in the right mood and the right circumstances would let a guy blow him with no pay involved and I'm sure its happened in the past.
Sean is back today, with Sawyer!
Brian struck me as mostly striaght but willing to fool around with guys even if there was no $$$ involved. I remember one of the AD scenes had not a straight porn movie to get him and his scene partner off but a gay one.
I also have to simply LOL at Axel. He can cover himself with those types of tats all he wants but if any of his racist buddies find out his side work,his life won't be worth a darn. Neo Nazi groups don't like gays any more then blacks/jews.
In my humble opinion AD has gone downhill. Most of the models aren't as hot anymore as they used to be.
And the same is with the filming of them. As to me AD has lost it's sparkle.
i agree what attratced me to ad in the past was the raw models and how they were fondled and fucked by the camera man and it was just so real but its all watery colorful shit.
I just joined Active Duty and while the content is still good, I'm disappointed in how sloppy the website is set up. It looks like the webmaster just stopped working on it one day and never resumed. Case in point: they have a listing of all the models (or Troops as they call it), but they don't correspond with the videos posted. For example, you can click on one model and it shows he has only two videos listed. But if you manually go through all of the videos, you can find about six others that are not listed under his name and doesn't show up if you do a search. What gives? Come on, Dink...I love you, but get it together!
Hope Sean comes back for another scene
I just noticed that Luke is scheduled for a live show on Monday, April 15!
First live show since June 22, I believe.
Now Kasey is listed for the 16th.
Some of the models on AD are still ok. Every once in a while a really hot dude comes through there, and they make one or a couple vids with him and then he just disappears. Very different from sites like SC or RB that will milk a model (no pun intended) by bringing him back to do more scenes once they realize that that's what the site members want to see. Seems to me like its the actual content production and organization of the site that lost its sparkle. This site used to be raw and edgy amateur porn---the hottest type of porn (IM0). I get the feeling that they don't care what the fans want as long as they just put something out there.


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When you think of Kanye West its probably about his career as a Grammy-winning rapper and record producer. Or it may be about his hyper-publicized marriage to Kim Kardashian. But West doesnt conjure an image of church.
Pastor Quinn Rodgers wants to change that.
The church he started in May, GeneratiONE (pronounced Generation One), is one where youre likely to hear something from the Kanye West songbook. This is not a traditional place of worship. The Baptist church, a member of the United Missionary Baptist Association, is a hip-hop church.
Like many religious leaders before him, Pastor Quinn, as hes known to his flock, doesnt take credit for forming a new congregation. God and I had a long conversation about it, he says. He revealed to me the blueprint.
Why now? It was time, Rodgers says.
If youre thinking hip-hop is geared to one narrow and young demographic, think again. Rodgers believes it has wide appeal.
Hip-hop has been around for 40 years. The founding fathers of hip-hop culture are approaching senior citizen status now. Some of them have grandkids.
One of GeneratiONEs first supporters, in fact, is an octogenarian. Dr. Willis Hickerson is a retired minister with a background in music. So he was a logical early supporter of Rodgers vision.
That vision relies heavily on music director Emma Foster. She selects the music for worship services held Saturday at 5:30 p.m. in Huntersville and directs the 15-member Room at the Cross Community Choir.
Our choir may be oriented to hip-hop culture, but that doesnt mean were limited to it, she says.
On a recent Saturday, the choir, consisting of Foster on keyboards, a drummer, bassist and six singers.
They performed a jubilant Michael Jackson mash-up including Off the Wall, Remember the Time and a bass-heavy Dont Stop til You Get Enough.
Music without limitations
The congregation clapped and swayed in time. A few folks even stood and sang along.
In addition to Kanye and Michael Jackson, Foster has woven music by Jay Z, The Gap Band, The Police, Michael W. Smith and Steven Curtis Chapman into worship services.
The service begins with 30 minutes of Rodgers, doubling as DJ, spinning songs (a remix of Kirk Franklins Lovely Day that fades into Tonexs Personal Jesus, for example) from a stage during what he terms happy hour. Ultimately, Rodgers hopes to have a core team of guest DJs rotate in and out each week. There may be spoken word, interpretive dance, graffiti art and theatrical elements during the service, too.
Theres also a sermon where you can expect scripture as well as references to hip-hop stars like Biggie and Tupac. (The pastor is a hip-hop fan himself. His favorite artists include Little Brother and The Foreign Exchange.)
Not in it for the numbers
Spreading the word about a new church especially one that meets on Saturday evenings isnt easy, but Rodgers says social media has been a blessing. GeneratiONE is actively marketing itself with merchandise, too. Theres an online store with T-shirts featuring their snazzy logo of the Charlotte skyline.
Rodgers is doing double pastoral duty; he serves as lead pastor at a well-established church, Chapel Hill Missionary Baptist Church, which has been in existence for 127 years. With about 125 members, its still a small church.
But its still larger than the fledgling GeneratiONE. On a recent Saturday, about 45 congregants from toddlers to seniors, most of them casually attired, came together in a building just behind Lake Forest Church. (The two churches have a loose affiliation.
Lake Forests founder and lead pastor, Dr. Mike Moses, is mentoring Rodgers on developing a new church. Moses knows something about growing a congregation. He began his own church in 1998 with 42 worshippers; he now has close to 2,000.)
Rodgers says GeneratiONE has been averaging about 100 people each week. But were not in it for the numbers, he says. Were in it for the souls to be saved.
If a young, T-shirt-clad pastor of a startup church calls to mind another preacher whos been in the news recently (Steven Furtick of Elevation Church), thats purely coincidental. Rodgers says hes not modeling GeneratiONE on any church. Im looking to Jesus for the model, he says. Were focused on sharing the gospel. God will take care of the rest.
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The Office of National Statistics has just released figures on incomes in the UK. Giving us that interesting little chart above. Do note that that is income of those who are in the tax system. And also that it does not include the impact of the benefits system. So this doesn't include subsidy to housing or anything like that.
And then have a look at the global rich list. Where you can plug in an income and the country to which it refers and see where that income in that country puts you on that global rich list. The reason you must add the source country is because they are calculating using PPP adjusted currency rates. That is, they're taking account of how much things cost in each country. So this isn't really a comparison of incomes, it's a comparison of living standards.
And here's the astonishing thing. That bottom 1% lifestyle in the UK is still among the top 20% globally. The UK minimum wage puts you well into the top 10% (almost top 5% in fact). And a little over median wage puts you into the global top 1%.
To repeat, this is not assuming that things are cheaper in other countries. This is after we convert to the prices you're paying at Morrisons.
We've nothing at all against those who would campaign about either poverty or inequality. But we would like to take this little opportunity to remind all that by any historical or global standard we here in the UK, yes even the relatively poor by local standards, are living pretty high on that income scale. And that feeds in to what we think is the important point about what we might want to do about inequality or poverty. Let's concentrate on that global picture, not gaze at our own navels. Encouraging poor country growth wit the aim of abolishing absolute poverty seems to be so much more productive to us than worrying about whatever gap there might be between the top 20%, top 10% and top 1% of the global income distribution.


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Comment on this storyLouis Trichardt - A man accused of shooting two nurses at the Vyeboom clinic, in Louis Trichardt, appeared in the Vuwani Magistrate's Court on Tuesday, Limpopo police said.
The case against Edison Bila, 38, was postponed until March 27, said Colonel Ronel Otto.
"He is facing charges of armed robbery and attempted murder after his arrest on Friday night," she said.
On Friday morning, a man arrived at the clinic wearing a balaclava. He fired two shots at the floor, forcing the clinic security guards to flee.
He took off his balaclava, entered the clinic, and went to a consultation room where he shot a nurse twice in the stomach. In another consultation room, he shot a nurse in the arm.
He took a set of car-keys and four cellphones and fled in a nurse's Volkswagen Polo.
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What Does It Take to Cooperate? New Tools for Transboundary Water Cooperation
April 11, 2013 // 9:00am — 11:00am
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Water is the foundation of human society and will become even more critical as population growth, development, and climate change put pressure on already-shrinking water resources in the years ahead. But will this scarcity fuel conflict between countries with shared waters, as some have predicted, or will it create more impetus for cooperation?
A Muslim Tale of Two Cities: 'We Met the Trains'
April 10, 2013 // 2:30pm — 3:30pm
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The forced migration of Muslims from the Balkans to Turkey is one of the least known movements of people in modern times. In "A Muslim Tale of Two Cities" Frances Trix focuses on urban Muslims from the central Balkans and the hometown associations they founded in Turkish cities.
The Power of Weak States in International Politics: Eastern Europe in the 20th Century
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"Weak states can be both policy takers and, occasionally, policy makers," argues Laszlo Borhi in a presentation examining weak states in East Central Europe in the 20th century. Focusing on several case studies, Borhi looks at three periods: the aftermath of World War I and World War II and the post-1989 era.
The Third Side of the Cold War: Movement of the Non-aligned States, Yugoslavia and the World
April 03, 2013 // 12:00pm — 1:00pm
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Drawing on the private document collections of two former Yugoslav ministers of foreign affairs, Tvrtko Jakovina renders an account of Tito's last years in office and the role Yugoslavia played as the leader of the Movement of the Non-aligned Countries from 1960s until 1990s.
The Way the Wind Actually Blew: Weatherman Underground Terrorism and the Counterculture, 1969-1971
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The most famous terrorist group in modern American history was the Weatherman Underground, later called the Weather Underground Organization. An outgrowth of Students for a Democratic Society, Weather was active in 1969 through the 1970s. Arthur Eckstein will argue that this is misleading and that the true history of Weather is much grimmer and more ambiguous.
The Sandzak Divided: Language and Identity Politics on Either Side of the New Serbian/Montenegrin Border
March 28, 2013 // 12:00pm — 1:00pm
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In the post-Yugoslav context, members of these Muslim communities have largely self-identified as Bosniaks, an ethnic/national term that gained prominence among Bosnian Muslims in the period immediately following the dissolution of Yugoslavia in 1991 and the outbreak of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. While language policies in this region were centrally formulated in the joint state, with the dissolution of the Republic of Serbia and Montenegro in 2006, the two halves of the Sandžak experienced divergent language policies. In his presentation, Robert Greenberg, professor of linguistics at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, argues that the division of the Sandžak may have been a catalyst for destabilizing and radicalized forces to emerge in the years following the formal Serbia/Montenegro split.
1989 After 1989: Memory in Transition in Central and Eastern Europe
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The eastern European revolutions of 1989 were a watershed in global history. Despite this, in the two decades since, their meaning has become a source of debate. While they have been promoted as a founding myth for a newly unified Europe, eastern Europeans have repeatedly represented them as a moment of betrayal, martyrdom, liberation, victory, disappointment, loss, colonization, or nostalgia.
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"Exciting, deeply engaged, and shrewdly perceptive, Stalin's Curse is an unprecedented revelation of the sinister machinations of Stalin's Kremlin." Based on newly declassified archival materials author Robert Gellately offers a more clearly defined picture of what went on behind the scenes.
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On the Edge of the Cold War: American Diplomats and Spies in Postwar Europe
January 23, 2013 // 12:00pm — 1:30pm
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Drawing on archival documents and testimonies of high-ranking American diplomats and intelligence officers, "On the Edge of the Cold War" explores the postwar political crisis in former Czechoslovakia from the perspective of the U.S. Embassy under Laurence Steinhardt and of U.S. Intelligence under Charles Katek and Spencer Taggart. The book paints a critical portrait of Ambassador Steinhardt, and shows that his groundless optimism caused Washington to ignore signs that democracy in Czechoslovakia was in trouble.


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Information Seeking and Subject Representation: An Activity-theoretical Approach to Information ScienceInformation science has for a long time been drawing on the knowledge produced in psychology and related fields. This is reasonable, for the central issue in information science concerns individual users navigating information spaces such as libraries, databases, and the Internet. Because information science is about the definition and location of information, information seeking is the fundamental problem in information science, while other problems, such as document representation, are subordinate. This book proposes a general theory of information seeking as a theoretical basis for information science. The volume begins with an examination of subject representation and retrieval. It then considers subject analysis and the organization of knowledge, the interpretational processes by which documents are analyzed, and their explicit subject retrieval data are created. Existing theories are then criticized from four epistemological perspectives, and the author argues that information science should be based on methodological collectivism, in which society, rather than the individual, determines the meaning of knowledge. The work then analyzes information seeking as a methodologically collectivistic activity. |
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The family in room 325 was one of sixteen eligible for the assistance that Icon had offered. Eleven took advantage of it. Four used their credit at a trailer park owned by Icon; two went to other Icon motels. Amy and Joshua wanted to use the Icon money as a down payment on a decent place, to buy them some stability. Not only did room 325 smell like piss, but it reeked of Raid. Amy had been trying to rid the kitchen of roaches for months. Now she mostly wanted a clean kitchen where she could cook again.
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